US DOCTOR BACKS PARTICIPATION IN EXECUTIONS
Capital punishment was not always on the list of activities proscribed by the medical profession. It was a doctor, Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, who proposed a technologically...
LIBERALS ARE SMARTER, SAY NEUROSCIENTISTS
In the on-going search for neurological explanations of all human behaviour, researchers have found that liberals are smarter than conservatives, at least in the US....
Surrogate mum heads for double digits
Britain's surrogacy champ is undoubtedly Ms Carole Horlock, who is eight weeks into a pregnancy which will make her the mother of 12 children of...
IS YOUR TOASTER A MORAL AGENT?
While the rest of us are still taking baby steps towards the solution of bioethical conundrums involving unborn people, sick people and dying people, more...
UK CLINICS TO OFFER EGG FREEZING
Two of Britain's leading fertility clinics are to offer egg freezing so that women can delay having children until well into their 40s. Until recently,...
US IVF CLINICS MAY BE OVER-SERVICING
American IVF clinics may be overusing a technique for fertilising patients' eggs to create embryos, costing couples and some insurers hundreds of extra dollars. ,...
ORIGINS KEPT SECRET FOR EMBRYO DONATION KIDS
Parents who have children via embryo donation or adoption have just as good relationships with them as IVF parents. But more than half of all...
FUTURE COULD BRING PIG-HEARTED PEOPLE
Maverick IVF specialist Lord Robert Winston has unveiled a plan to solve the organ transplant crisis with genetically-engineered pigs. He is trying to trick the...
LITHUANIAN STOUSH OVER DRUG APPROVAL
Government meddling in drug approvals is not an issue only in the US, where foot-dragging over the morning-after pill has landed the Bush Administration in...
STEM CELL PROGRESS
ALL SHOOK UP: Researchers at Georgia Tech and Emory University have discovered that gently shaking embryonic stem cells, rather like how an embryo is shaken...